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No. 421,025. Patented Feb. 11, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

. 3 CHARLES E. BERRY, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

HAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 421,025, dated February11, 1890. Application filed February 18, 1889. Serial No- 300,267- (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. BERRY, of Cambridge, county of Middlesex,State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Hames, of whichthe following description, in connection with the aocompa nyingdrawings, is a specification, like letters and figures on the drawingsrepresenting like parts.

This invention has for its object to improve the construction of thehame shown and described in United States Patent No. 234,519, granted tome November 16, 1880. As shown in the said patent, the parts of the hameare loosely connected together at the top by a strap or chain andprovided at the bottom one part with a recess and latch and the otherpart with a tongue or bolt to enter said recess and to be engaged by thelatch. The tongue shown in the said patent is integral with a part ofthe hame, and as a result is rigid, and as the hamespnade substantiallyalike, are applied to collars of different sizes and width the saidtongue becomes bent as the parts of the hame are separated more or less,thereby destroying or rendering useless that part of the hame.

In accordance with this invention, each part of the hame is recessed ormade tubular at its lower end, which ends abut against each other, andthe tongue is pivoted in the recess in one part of the hame incontradistinction to being rigidly formed, and a latch is pivoted in theother part of the hame to engage said tongue, thereby insuring greatlatitude of movement or play of the parts of the hames toward and fromeach other.

Figure 1 shows in front elevation a hame provided with the improvementconstituting this invention; Fig. 2, an under side view of aportion ofthe hame shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3, a front view of the lower portionof the hame shown in Fig. 1, broken out to show in section the partswithin.

The two parts of the hame a b are hollowed out, recessed, or madetubular at the lower ends, as at a 12'. One of the parts of the hame, asa, has a recess a, in which is piv-' oted at 2 a latch a The other partof the hame, as b, has a recess b in which, as shown, is pivoted at 3 afinger or tongue 0, which projects from the recess, the said finger ortongue being cut away or recessed at one side to receive the engagingend of the latch a The finger or tongue 0 is made somewhat smaller indiameter than the recess b, there by affording considerable movement orplay. The latch a is normally held in engagement with the finger ortongue cbya spring 4, and is adapted to be moved against the tension ofthe spring by pressure upon it above the spring. By thus connecting thefinger or tongue 0 with a part of the hame it is free to be moved, sothat the two parts of the hame may be separated more or less at theupper ends for dilferent sizes and shapes without liability of injuringthe tongue, as by bending it.

I am aware that a hame having a two-part detachable fastening is notnew, the fastening consisting of a tubular part and a notched.

finger; and also I am aware that a hame having a fastening the operatingpart or mem ber of which projects from the hame is not new.

The hames embodying this invention are employed chiefly for firedepartment pur poses, and if the operating part or member of thefastening projects part of the harness will catch on it and separate itwhile the horses are running; so, also, with a detachable fastening, theharness catching on the hooks.

For the purpose of which this hame is designed it is absolutelyessential that a smooth and uninterrupted surface be presented, which isobtained as above specified and as shown. The hame also presents a veryneat appearance.

I claim- The two parts a b the lower ends, as a,

of the hame tubular at as at a b, one of the parts, having an accessiblepivoted latch and the other part, as I), having pivoted in its recessedend the finger, or tongue 0, to enter the recess in the part'a and beengaged by the latch, the cross-sectional area of said pivoted finger ortongue being less than the cross-sectional area of the recesses a I),name to this specification in the presence of whereby a concealedfastening is presented two subscribing witnesses. and upon the finger ortongue of which the parts of the heme may be moved as a pivot, CHARLESE. BERRY. 5 substantially asnnd for the purposes set Witnesses:

forth. BERNICE J. NoYns,

In testimony whereof I have signed my y FREDERICK L. EMERY.

